Ship’s Log

I‘m enjoying cleaning my computer too much. Here’s another random document, this one from April 22, 2009 and not opened since, titled Best Cucumber Sandwiches. This one I actually found the source for, just out of curiosity. My bet is that I was printing a grocery list. This is a strangely divisive sandwich. One of … Continue reading “Best Cucumber Sandwiches”

I do a terrible job deleting files off my computer, and so every once in a while I find a completely random document I have no recollection of making. This one is a word document I made on June 2, 2006 for reasons I’ll never figure out again. It’s just titled Philosophers, and I’m putting … Continue reading “Philosophers (?)”

Ivor Novello was such a proto-goth heartthrob. Like, throw a blazer on him and muss his hair up and he’d be ready to win the hearts of sensitive girls with very active tumblr accounts. But he’s actually got this really interesting history that I didn’t know much about. I know way more about Noël Coward. … Continue reading “Ivor Novello Silently Stole My Heart”

Let me begin by saying, I loved The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily. Totally loved it. That’s the five star beginning and end point. But nothing is ever that simple when you really start thinking about a book. It all goes back to this issue I keep thinking about: who are these books for? … Continue reading “The Work of References in Fiction”

I am by no means an expert, but I started putting some writing advice on Get Underlined. I have no idea if anyone reads it, but it’s kind of fun. I think Get Underlined is trying to build a community similar to the site it came from, which was called Figment. I also literally just … Continue reading “Where was Figment When I Was a Kid?”

What. The. Hell. Is. This. Thing. (???) Let me back up for a second. Last night/this morning, I watched Hitchcock’s The Lodger which is an absolute FEAST of typefaces and text design starting with the beautiful censor card, the opening sequence, all the intertitles, basically any time text appears onscreen…INCLUDING in this bizarro magic box … Continue reading “Teleprinter In A Box?”

It would be really difficult to explain exactly how I ended up on this topic, but suffice to say it started with a certain member of the household lighting my kitchen towels on fire, took a detour past Malraux, and ended in the Tintin shop where regrettably they did not have kitchen towels. But what … Continue reading “Le Musée Imaginaire de Tintin”

Well, it’s official. Another year in the NaNoWriMo losers club. But it’s a pretty awesome club, because you still have a ridiculous amount of writing that’s off your plate (about 30K for me), and you find that you remember: actually, you kind of like writing when you give yourself permission to focus on it. And, … Continue reading “Another Year, Still Can’t Win”

Given that I have a book called “Untitled Book Two” that I’ve been musing about in my head for a good year now, I’ve decided to do NaNoWriMo. And, you know, write it down in real sentences and words so that in December I can start properly loathing it, destroy 95% of it, and replace … Continue reading “Happy NaNoWriMo 2017”

I enjoyed this more than I think it deserved, honestly. I thought it was shot so beautifully, taking such advantage of Bette Davis's face, and that the tragically repetitive, circling plot kind of worked, for the hammer-loud point the film seemed to be making.